Garment hanger



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llliii Qn iilii EdwMdFHqgw Patented Dec. 27, 1949 GARMENT HANGER Edward F. Hogan, Andover, Mass, assignor to The Bolta Company, Lawrence, Mass, a corporation of Massachusetts Application March 1, 1946, Serial No. 651,132

This invention relates to improvements in garment hangers and the principal object of the invent-ion is to provide a garment hanger construction for separately supporting independently or selectively one or several garments thereby providing a hanger of greater capacity than heretofore produced and one which is adapted to support a greater variety of garments such, for example, as a coat, a slip having shoulder straps, sleeveless garments, trousers, etc.

A further object of the invention is to provide an integral garment hanger of the character above described which can be conveniently moulded at a minimum cost of production.

Another object of the invention is to provide a garment hanger of the character described, adapted to fit any style of garment, with no adjustable parts and which requires no assemblage.

A further object of the invention is to provide a garment hanger of the character described in which all of the garment-engaging members are provided with rounded edges adapted to avoid snagging or ripping of the garment.

These and other objects and features of the invention will more fully appear from the following description and the accompanying drawings and will be particularly pointed out in the claim.

Preferred embodiments of the invention are shown in the accompanying drawings, in which,

Fig. 1 is a side view of one form of the garment hanger embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view on line 2-2 Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a detail view of one of the arm portions of a modified form of hanger;

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4-4 Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is a detail view of one of the arm portions of another modified form of hanger; and,

Fig. 6 is a vertical sectional view on line 6-6 Fig. 5.

The features of the garment hanger illustrated in the drawings which are common to all comprise a body of resilient thermoplastic material having a central neck portion I with a hookshaped suspension member 2 extending upwardly from the central portion thereof and outwardly and downwardly converging arms 3 and 4 extending in opposite directions from the neck portion. The neck and arms comprise a continuous thin web 5 bounded by upper and lower relatively thick rounded ribs 6 and 1, the ribs at the ends of the arms presenting rounded shoulders 8. The upper portion of each arm is provided approximately midway of its length with a downwardly extending slot 9 which is bounded by an extension ID of 1 Claim. (Cl. 223-93) the rib '6. Each of the arms is provided with inwardly extending horizontal branch I I preferably having .a central web 12 forming a continuation of the web 5 and each of the horizontal branches is provided with means for preventing a garment hanging thereon from slipping off the end thereof. In the constructions shown the branches 1 2| are provided with a series of teeth 13 and with an upwardly extending terminal hooked portion l4.

In the construction shown in Fig. 1 a webbed finger l5, which is bounded by the lower rib I, extends inwardly beneath and in parallelism to the branch II. This is spaced at its outer end from the branch H and converges upwardly toward and in close proximity to the lower rib of the branch and by reason of the resilience of the material provides a clamp for holding a garment in the slot thereby provided.

The lower rib 1 of each of the arms has beneath the neck portion an upwardly curved extension I 6 forming a hook adapted also to engage another garment.

The hanger thus constructed comprises a main body having an upwardly extending neck portion and downwardly extending curved arm's adapted to fit the shoulder and neck portion of a coat. The slots 9 in the upper ribs provide means for holding the straps of a slip or the like, the extension l0 forming the upper wall of the slot being curved to form a substantial continuation of the upper rib of the hanger.

The inwardly extending hooked-shaped horizontal branch provides a support for another garment while the clamping finger, which lies beneath the horizontal branch, afi'ords means for clampingly supporting another garment. The hooks which extend inwardly from the lower rib beneath the neck portion form supports which can be used either singly or in combination to hang another article of clothing or any suitable relatively small garment or device.

The construction illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 difiers from that above described in that the resilient means for clamping a portion of a garment against the under rib of the horizontal branch I I is in the form of a finger I! having a downwardly curved rounded end portion l8, the base of the finger I! being a relatively thick portion I 9 of the lower rib 1.

The construction illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6 is similar to that illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 in that the resilient finger [1, which extends from the thickened terminal portion 20 of the arm of the hanger, is consequently longer and provides a greater garment-receiving area. Each of the constructions above described is adapted to independently support a larger number of garments than hangers heretofore constructed without danger of snagging or tearing them and is consequently of greater utility than those heretofore made. So far as I am aware no garment hanger has heretofore been constructed in which the utility of resilient thermoplastic material has been utilized clampingly to support a garment or portions thereof.

It will be understood that the particular embodiments of the invention shown and described herein are of an illustrative character and not restrictive of the meaning and scope of the following claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is:

An integral garment hanger of molded resilient thermoplastic material having a central neck portion, a hook-shaped suspending member extending upwardly therefrom, outwardly and downwardly curved arms extending in opposite directions from said central neck portion in the vertical plane thereof, said neck portion and arms having a thin web bounded by relatively thick rounded upper and lower ribs, each of said 4 arms having in proximity to the respective ends thereof a horizontal branch extending inwardly therefrom having a thin web surrounded by continuous portions of the lower rib with the upper portion of the rib thereof having upwardly extending projections and an upwardly extending hooked end of greater length than said projections, and a supplemental upwardly curved am having rounded surfaces extending inwardly from the end portion of each arm in the same plane therewith and resiliently engaging the lower rib of the respective branch thereby providing a yielding clamp for engagement of a portion 01' a garment between the supplemental arm and the inwardly extending branch of the hanger.

EDWARD F. HOGAN.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 854,420 Holmer May 21, 1907 1,605,918 Buchanan Nov. 9, 1926 2,318,770 Freman May 11, 1943 D. 144,679 Bolten May 14, 1946 

